Democracy and its Crisis by A C Grayling
$12.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: good-very good
Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why, crucially, it matters. First he considers moments in history - Peric ...Show more
Blowout - Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humour, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetenc ...Show more
Nonviolence - The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky
$8.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare. According to this view, all the important ideas and significant changes of humankind occurred as part of an effort to win one violent, bloody conflict or another. This approach to history is only one of many examples of how s ...Show more
The Return of the Public - Democracy, Power, and the Case for Media Reform by Dan Hind
$10.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Setting the People Free - The story of Democracy by John Dunn
$12.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
This book explains how a casual practical solution to local Greek political difficulties so very long ago has come to stand virtually unchallenged as the ground for modern political authority. It shows how the idea of democracy has kept its power in a world which is utterly different from the world of c ...Show more
Gotcha - Life in a Tabloid World by Catharine Lumby
$10.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
A controversial take on the future of the media, from the author of Bad Girls.
Young People and the Future of News by Lynn Schofield Clark; Regina Marchi
$16.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Communication, Society and Politics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Young People and the Future of News traces the practices that are evolving as young people come to see news increasingly as something shared via social networks and social media rather than produced and circulated solely by professional news organizations. The book introduces the concept of connective j ...Show more
The Theory of Social Situations - An Alternative Game-Theoretic Approach by Joseph Greenberg
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
This book, first published in 1991, offers an integrative approach to the study of formal models in the social and behavioural sciences. The theory presented here unifies both the representation of the social environment and the equilibrium concept. The theory requires that all alternatives that are ava ...Show more
Village India - Studies in the Little Community by McKim Marriott (Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good
Censorship Moments - Reading Texts in the History of Censorship and Freedom of Expression by Geoff Kemp (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Censorship in varying forms has been part of human experience for 2,500 years and has proved itself to be a recurring presence for political thought, whether as active repression, a shaping context for expression, or as itself a subject for analysis and argument. From the death of Socrates to the fatwa ...Show more
Creative Schools - Revolutionizing Education from the Ground Up by Ken Robinson; Lou Aronica
$16.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Ken Robinson is one of the world's most influential voices in education, and his talk, 'How Schools Kill Creativity', is the most viewed in the history of TED. In this empowering, ground breaking book, he sets out his vision for how we can transform our industrial model of education to better meet the n ...Show more